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MEMORIAL MONUMENT 



TO 



HENRY HUTTLESTON ROGERS 



JANUARY 29, 1912 



TOWN HALL 



FAIRHAVEN, MASSACHUSETTS 



ISSUED BY 

THE MILLICENT LIBRARY, 

FAIRHAVEN, MASS. 






C. D. WALDRON, PRINTER 



INTRODUCTION. 



The Millicent Library publishes this pamphlet that 
there may be preserved in convenient and permanent 
form a record of the proceedings connected w^ith the 
dedication of the monument erected by the people of 
Fairhaven to the memory of Henry Huttleston Rogers. 
This memorial was made possible by an immediate and 
widespread response to the suggestion that some evi- 
dence be given by the townspeople of their appreciation 
of his many benefactions. It will ever stand as a re- 
minder to all, that the citizens realize to how great an 
extent the beauty and advantages of Fairhaven are due 
to his thoughtfulness and generosity. 

The design for the monument was made and pre- 
sented by the firm of Brigham, Coveney, and Bisbee, 
architects, of Boston. The shaft was erected in the 
fall of 1911 and the formal dedication took place in 
the town hall on the evening of January 29, 1912, the 
anniversary of the birth of Mr. Rogers. 



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PROGRAMME. 



GLORIA — ''Glory and power and majesty" Bardese 

From Mass in F 

HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS 

PRAYER 

REV. FRANK L. PHALEN 

ADDRESS 

MR. GEORGE H. TRIPP 

HYMN— "It singeth low in every heart" Griggs 

John W. Chadwick 

TRANSFER OF MONUMENT TO THE TOWN 
MR. THOMAS A. TRIPP 

Chairman of the Finance Committee 

ACCEPTANCE OF MONUMENT BY THE TOWN 
MR. CHARLES P. MAXFIELD 
Chairman Board of Selectmen 

RECESSIONAL— "God of our fathers known of old" 
^ Boyd 

Rudyard Kipling 



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Address. 
MR. GEORGE H. TRIPP. 

At the entrance to the town which he loved, 
stands the simple monument which we dedicate today, 
a granite shaft erected by the grateful citizens of this 
town in the hundredth year of its incorporation, to 
commemorate its most famous citizen. We meet to 
give a formal expression of our gratification at the 
completion of a work which has been a labor of love; 
not an imposing statue in bronze or marble, which 
would have offended his sense of propriety, but a 
memorial erected by the willing contributions of all 
people and classes in this community, from the glad 
offerings of the children in the schools, to the larger 
contributions of their elders. We are here to dedicate 
a modest shaft to the memory of a man whose relations 
to his native town were simple, artless, and sincere ; a 
man whose multiplied business cares, whose progress 
from the village boy, through all the stages of his 
successful career, wonderful as the realization of 
Aladdin's dream, never severed or loosed his affections, 
or changed his constant attachment to the place and 
the people of his own town. 

We commemorate him, not as a hero of warfare, 
not as a statesman whose voice was heard in senate 
chamber, but as a great prince of industry, who from 
humble beginnings raised himself, by his own far- 
seeing wisdom, his skill, and unremitting toil, to a com- 
manding position among the world's greatest business 
leaders, with a seat at the council boards of the greatest 



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organized industries. But it is not alone or mainly 
a great captain of industry or financial magnate that 
we honor in this way, but a man, whose intrinsic 
worth, what he was, his achievements, what he ac- 
complished, and his benefactions, what he did for 
others, we honor, and give a place in the warmest 
affections of the people of Fairhaven. We liked the 
man for what he was. We who knew him well saw 
beneath the surface. To some he w^as as the rock in 
the ledge, weather-worn and scarred with the tumult 
of battle with the elements. We knew that as in the 
Fort ledge, which furnished the stone for his church 
and school, the deeper below the surface we went, the 
purer the grain, the more beautiful the texture. 

And what was the man as a man ? Dr. Collier, 
a friend of years, and his family pastor, who had con- 
soled him in the hour of affliction, who had married 
his children, who had administered to him as a 
close friend for many years, this keen Scotchman 
said: "He was a man of clean heart, pure man- 
hood, pure in speech." A writer in the New York 
Times said: ''Courtesy of a very special kind, 
running even to over consideration for others, was 
his most marked characteristic." This showed itself 
sometimes in apparently trivial matters. Because 
some people were awakened or disturbed by the 
whistle of his yacht, which came into the harbor early 
Friday or Saturday mornings, Mr. Rogers gave orders 
that the whistle should not blow, and it was sup- 
pressed. 

A man of innate refinement, of distinguished 
presence — it was a liberal education to know him. He 
was with all his sturdy Americanism the personifica- 



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tion of courtesy. Polished in his manners, careful of his 
dignity, he never demeaned himself by rudeness, or 
lowered his standard as a gentleman of the old school, 
transplanted into the personality of a modern business 
man. Prompt, punctual to the minute, he demanded 
like qualities in others. This same promptness he ex- 
pected in hours of relaxation. If the Kanawha was to 
start on a pleasure trip of a few days, and the time of 
leaving was ten o'clock, his friends would find him on 
the dock before the hour. They did not have to wait 
for the owner's convenience. His choice of intimates 
and of those to whom he gave his confidence was a true 
index of the man. He admired talent and true worth— 
whether Samuel C. Clemens, in white, or Booker T. 
Washington, in black, T. B. Reed, Laurence Hutton— 
—he recognized good work, and admired the brilliant 
accomplishments of his literary friends, as well as the 
results of men who succeeded in the business world. 
In domestic life he was beyond reproach as hus- 
band, father, grandfather. He was no sentimentalist, 
but was profoundly affected by sentiment. This was 
notably manifest in all pertaining to the people and 
places connected with his youth. Every school friend 
he remembered, and all anniversaries of his school life 
were commemorated. Annual meetings of the Fair- 
haven Alumni association were made delightful by his 
witty reminiscences, and the contagion of his happy re- 
trospect of old times. The fiftieth anniversary celebra- 
tion of the opening of the Fairhaven High school will 
never be forgotten by any who attended the wonderful 
programme of events covering three days, crowned by 
a banquet, the like of which was never seen in this town 
—all made possible and largely provided through his 



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sentimental attachment to the friends and schoolmates 
of his boyhood. Then, on the fiftieth anniversary of his 
graduation from that school, the new building which 
he had provided was opened for school use, and the 
children of the town were seated in the building which 
was to be their school home for the future. 

His loyalty to his friends was characteristic of the 
man. His ideal friendship for Walter P. Winsor, alas! 
with us no more, was intensified by the remembrance 
of a thoughtful act of kindness which Mr. Winsor ren- 
dered to him at a time when ]\Ir. Rogers was in the 
sorest affliction at the death of his daughter Millicent. 
The kind consideration and delicate sympathy which 
Mr. Winsor was able to render him at that time made 
a lasting impression on Mr. Rogers. With the deepest 
feeling in speaking of this he said : '^I shall never forget 
it." His enemies said he never forgot an injury; his 
friends know he never forgot a kindness. 

What he accomplished is a part of the material 
history of the industrial development of the country. 
Bom 72 years ago today, he pursued the usual course 
of school boys up through the High school, from which 
he graduated in 1856, with this important difference; 
nothing escaped his attention, nothing ever dropped 
from his mind. If anj^ unusual event occurred, if any 
quaint character appeared, or peculiar saying was ut- 
tered, it was lodged in his brain, never to escape, so that 
years after when burdened by multifarious business 
cares, he could relieve his mind by giving anecdote after 
anecdote, naming person, place, and time, which made 
its impress upon him, perhaps fifty or sixty years before. 
No old resident was ever mentioned but he could tell 
some story connected with him. 



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After leaving school, the very next day at work 
in the Union store, then afterwards on the railroad, he 
began to feel the growing pains of youth, the desire to 
conquer in broader fields. With the same spirit which 
led his forbears to pursue the whale in its wide domains, 
with the idea of a fortune and exciting adventure which 
a dozen years before had sent so many from this vicinity 
to seek the Golden Fleece in California, in 1860 he went 
to the oil regions. It was no holiday life of pampered 
ease which he spent in those days. No eight-hour law 
prevented him from doing a full day's work. Early and 
late he labored for the wife and children who were 
adding to his pleasure and responsibility. It was here 
in 1860 that he cast his first vote in a presidential 
election for Abraham Lincoln. In 1868 he entered the 
employ of Charles Pratt in the oil refining business in 
Brooklyn. For the next forty years his life is inex- 
tricably woven into the w^arp of the history of great 
organizations. He became the ''Master Mind of Stand- 
ard Oil." As the Times said : ''Self-made man, rising by 
self-denial and tireless industry from humble conditions 
to the great place in the industrial and commercial 
world, and then doing good things with his millions." 
In his long business career, his attitude was well ex- 
pressed by a writer in a New York magazine: "lie never 
said an unkind word even of his worst enemies and he 
asked for no consideration." What disinterested ob- 
servers at a distance thought of him is well given in the 
words of Sir Edward Ward: "I wish w^e had a few of 
them here (in England) to teach our people how to 
work and organize. They would have been in the House 
of Lords long ago." At a dinner given in London to 
Mark Twain when Mr. Rogers was last in England, he 



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sat next a Member of Parliament who expressed to Mr. 
Rogers his great pleasure in meeting a man who had 
been so largely instrumental in "prolonging daylight." 
Few realize the enormous increase in opportunity for 
work and for recreation by the production of a cheap 
illuminating oil. It added hours to the day of the 
people out of reach of gas illuminants. And this benefit 
was world-wide in its application. Abraham Lincoln 
would no longer be forced to pursue his studies by the 
uncertain light of torches plucked from the fireplace. 
China and India could prolong their day into the 
evening by the light furnished from the oil wells of 
Pennsylvania. I well remember the seeming incon- 
gruity of a photograph showing the interior of an 
Indian temple, with all the paraphernalia for pagan 
worship, with images of heathen gods lighted by 
kerosene oil lamps. When asked to write the story of 
Standard Oil, Mr. Rogers once said: "I am content to 
leave my work to the judgment of history." He was 
misunderstood. He felt it. No more sensitive man 
ever pursued a life of strenuous business. He worked 
on lines which he felt were justified. Never vindictive, 
he did what he thought was right, and played the game. 
The consumer, of whom we hear so much, never was 
injured by the Standard Oil. The price of petroleum 
products was vastly reduced, largely by the superb 
organization of which he was the Master Mind. He had 
ingrained the qualities which make success in every 
calling. He appreciated success, expected it for himself 
and desired it for others. If work was to be done, the 
best possible excuse for not accomplishing it did not 
meet with his approval. Something completed, however 
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something greater. Speaking of the company with 
which he was associated for so many years, a writer 
said : ' ' Its tremendous out-reach and conquering courage 
have been greatly due to the imaginative side of the 
temperament of Henry H. Rogers. He has inherited the 
pioneer spirit." Again, a banker said of him: "Henry 
H, Rogers loved affairs better than anything else. It 
was not the struggle for the sake of the fight, but for 
the end in view. As soon as he won, he passed on with- 
out a halt to try another tilt. He had what is im- 
portant, the grit for a long clinch, and what is most 
important, the habit of victory." 

A leading New York paper said of him at his 
death; "He has gone to the appraisal of history. That 
is discriminating and true. Those who think they un- 
derstood him, can leave him there, convinced that the 
faults of his time will not be chargeable to him, and 
persuaded that the qualities of himself can confidently 
be left to the arbitrament of Divine and human 
justice." 

And now, regarding his benefactions, the use 
which he made of the results of his incessant toil for 
sixty years. Naturally his gifts to Fairhaven come 
first to mind. One has said of him: "But it is in Fair- 
haven itself that he fairly revels in life as he thinks he 
would like to live it. There he was born and reared, and 
his affection for the town and the bay, and the country 
road, is extravagant in its manifestations." It was said 
of Queen Mary of England that after the French town 
of Calais was finally wrested from the grasp of the 
English who had held it for over 200 years, she ex- 
claimed: "After my death, the name of Calais will be 
found engraved upon my heart." Every act of our 



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friend showed that with deepest lines the name of Fair- 
have was inscribed upon his heart. He manifested the 
most considerate and unremitting devotion to the town 
of his birth. The monuments which he reared while 
living were the structures which were erected to serve 
the interests of the townspeople. These buildings 
seemed progressively^ to care first, for the needs of the 
children, in the school buildings so generously supplied ; 
then, for the older citizens in the towm hall which ]\Irs. 
Rogers erected as a civic centre ; and the library for all 
ages which was built by the children of Mr. Rogers as 
a memorial to their sister Millicent, and amply endow^ed 
by his generosity. The recreation ground in Cushman 
Park, turned over to the town as a memorial of a colo- 
nial ancestor of his family, the lavish expenditures upon 
the streets, the water system, which gives an endow- 
ment to the library, "finds books in the running 
brooks,*' to the Memorial church erected in memorj^ of 
his mother and endowed in perpetuity, all attested the 
unlimited scope of his largess to the people of this town. 
The building of the Atlas Tack factory was projected 
as an industry which should directly benefit the people 
of the town. It was not, it manifestly could not have 
been undertaken in a purely commercial spirit. 

The schools of Fairhaven were always close to 
his heart. When the new High school was about to be 
opened he expressed himself in these words: "For the 
boy starting out in life who is anxious to succeed in 
business I believe that the ordinary High school educa- 
tion is the best outfit. He is master of the ordinary 
implements of business life; he has at least a founda- 
tion of general knowledge. Our American High schools 
each cultivate a sense of greatness of the country which 



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inspires him with the confidence of her future, and 
hence in his own. The High school boy has set for him 
a standard of manliness, of personal honor, of good 
conduct, and that give-and-take which is the necessity 
of all civilized social conflict." 

The High school building which was the last of 
Mr. Rogers's gifts to the town is proving every day its 
usefulness and great value to the youth of the town. 
Complete with every appliance and convenience known 
for modern progressive instruction, it fulfils one of the 
great needs of educational training. It is popular 
with the boys and girls of the community, so that the 
youth of Fairhaven, instead of being driven to school 
have sometimes to be driven away from school at the 
close of the afternoon. The building and its surround- 
ings, and the whole atmosphere of the school are so 
attractive that the children stay there afternoons after 
the school closes at half-past one, without murmur or 
complaint. 

To show how the young people of Fairhaven ap- 
preciate their educational opportunities, a reference 
might be made to the inscription upon the Rogers 
school building, a quotation from some remarks of Mr. 
Rogers in turning the building over to the school de- 
partment. ''To the Children of Fairhaven. The town 
legally possesses this building, but you, the boys and 
girls, are, in effect, the owners. You will see that we 
gave you the property, and you are to occupy it and 
be benefited by its use. We want you to take good 
care of it. We want you to show your appreciation 
of our work, and give expression to your good feeling 
toward us by neither defacing the property yourselves, 
nor permitting it to be done by others. As other children 



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enter the school, try and use your influence agauist 
their doing it, that in time they may feel a like interest 
and impart it to those who follow them. This seems 
but little to ask, and we hope the future will show, as 
we believe it will, that our wishes are respected and 
an affirmative answer is given to our request." 

This friendly advice has been faithfully followed, 
and probably no school building in the commonwealth 
shows less of the wanton misuse by school children than 
the Rogers school of Fairhaven. 

This is not the time to catalogue the list of noble 
charities of the man whom we honor. Every organiza- 
tion on both sides of the river which aimed wisely to 
administer and distribute assistance where needed, re- 
ceived regular and generous contributions by the 
anonymous contributor whose charity could not long 
be hidden. 

A word only may be said of the far-reaching ex- 
tent of his kindly care. Whether it was Negro educa- 
tion in the south, where Booker T. Washington said 
that 65 small country schools were being assisted l)y his 
secret contributions, or the education of Helen Keller, 
which he assumed, all was done unostentatiously and 
cheerfully. No wonder that Booker T. Washington 
said: "He was one of the best and the greatest men I 
have ever met, and it seems to me one of the greatest 
men of his day or age." Of his benefaction to Helen 
Keller, Mr. Geoghegan said: "Of all the beautiful 
tributes that have ever been paid to a man, there is 
none more touching than the letter written by Helen 
Keller, a soul embodying everything that is beautiful. 
I can't think that a man with anything selfish or mean 
in him could have won the confidence of that blind 
girl." In the vivid word painting, which is sometimes 



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granted to the blind, she said: "How glad I am that I 
can tell the world of Mr, Rogers's kindness to me. He 
had the imagination, the vision, and the heart of a 
great man, and I count it one of the most precious 
privileges of my life to have had him for my friend. 
The memory of his friendship will grow sweeter and 
brighter each year, until he takes my hand again, ami 
we gather roses together in the gardens of Paradise." 
The Kanawha revisits our port no more. The 
welcome sight of her beautifully moulded hull glad- 
dens not our straining sight. It sometimes seems, so 
frequent was her path to Fairhaven, that like the loved 
doctor's horse which finds unguided the path to the 
patient's door, she would perforce find her own way 
past the Hen and Chickens lightship, past Dumpling 
light and Butler's flat, and drop anchor again in the 
deep hole off the Tack Works wharf. In going over 
the bridge we almost expect any day again to see the 
beautiful craft with her rakish smoke stack and her 
lofty spars delighting the vision of all, but no, her 
proud owner rests by the side of the river in the 
beautiful home of those whose trials are over. 

It is for us, the living, to see that the loyalty to 
our town so wonderfully shown by our friend be per- 
petuated by those who survive, that while we honor 
his memory, we do all that we can do to make that 
honor and respect efficient. In this hundredth year of 
the independent life of our loved town, we should 
pledge our sacred honor to use to the best advantage 
the exceptional opportunities made possible by his 
benefactions, and by making it a fitter place to live in, 
yield to his memory the meed of appreciation which is 
his due. In this way we honor him by honoring our- 
selves. 



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Transfer of the Monument to the Town. 

MR. THOMAS A. TRIPP. 
Chairman Finance Committee. 

Four score and two years after the corporate 
birthday of this town, the citizens gathered in this hall 
to formally dedicate this building to the business uses 
and agreeable recreations of the people of Fairhaven. 

That was a memorable occasion, a beautiful day, 
a notable gathering. His Excellency, Frederick T. 
Greenhalge, the governor of the commonwealth, spoke 
eloquently from this platform. New Bedford's dis- 
tinguished citizen, Hon. William W. Crapo, in charming 
words of wisdom and counsel, formally presented the 
keys of this building to the officials of the town. 

Mark Twain, that world famous man of letters, 
by manner, expression and language, charmed, cap- 
tivated and convidsed his audience, as only the manner, 
expression, language, wit and humor of Mark Twain 
could convulse an audience. 

Now we are gathered for another dedication. 
Some of those who were present on the former occa- 
sion are here today. Some of those who took part in 
those exercises sit in this audience; but we miss one 
among our number* — of conspicuous figure, of manly 
bearing; one whose dignity and ability added wisdom 
to the counsels of business; whose voice and manner, 
and rare judgment helped to guide and refine the 
action of political gatherings, and of those typical New 
England town meetings so frequently held within these 
walls. 



•The reference is to Mr. Walter P. Winso,r. an intimate 
friend of Mr. Rogers and the chairman of the Memorial Com- 
mittee. Hia death occurred December 8, 1911, before the com- 
pletion of the monument. 



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I say we miss him tonight — his place should have 
been on this platform, presiding over this meeting, or 
more fitting still, with his presence and ability fully 
filling the position I reluctantly occupy, and formally 
presenting this monument in which he took so deep an 
interest, to the officials of the town. 

But such was not to be, for a few short weeks 
ago we bore his manly form to quiet rest on the western 
slope of yonder New England hillside, so near to that 
of his dearest friend whose monument we gather here 
to dedicate tonight. 

How shall we best dedicate this monument? 
Certainly not by words which men will little note nor 
long remember, but rather by here dedicating ourselves 
to the unfinished work remaining before us; by dedi- 
cating ourselves here to the problems of this town, and 
the commonwealth, problems which were never greater 
than they are today in Fairhaven and in New Eng- 
land. 

What these problems are it is unnecessary for 
me to state, anyone who has arrived to years of under- 
standing, who walks the streets and reads the papers, 
can decide for himself. 

The monument is finished, the life which it com- 
memorates has passed, but the influence of that life as 
manifested in the great benefactions to Fairhaven has 
only just begun. 

Stranger, friend, if you seek an influence of that 
life look around you. This building is a conspicuous 
example of enlightened liberality, not only refined in 
its architecture but highly practical for the purposes 
intended. Do we pattern our citizenship after the idea 
manifested in the beauty and utility of the stone and 



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brick and wood or do we move along the lines of least 
resistance, and prefer leisure to civic duty, and per- 
sonal comfort to public prosperity? 

Do we, and will we, and will those who come 
after us gain inspiration from the beauty and harmony 
of this environment, and earnestly and honestly strive 
to discharge the duties of citizenship with highest 
patriotism, free from petty jealousies and political 
bickerings? 

May we pass across the way; stranger, friend, if 
you seek an influence of that remarkable life, look 
about you on shelves laden with the books of the 
world's best literature. Are we making best use of 
that grand influence of great and good literature or 
are the calls too frequent for the latest sensation ? The 
influence is there, the opportunity is ours. Will we all 
avail ourselves? 

Let us go near the monument itself, where is dis- 
played in significant contrast the three examples of 
educational facilities in Fairhaven, one of them like 
unto 'a city set upon a hill which cannot be hid.' 
Stranger, friend, if you seek an influence for good 
beyond all possibility of description look about you! 
And near the school the church spire stands — that 
church of maternal memory, differing from some others 
in theological tenets like as one star differs from an- 
other star in glory, yet all of the same firmament, 
lighting the world; as one flower may differ from an- 
other in color and form and fragrance, but all from 
the same soil, and all brought into bloom and beauty 
by the same everlasting sunshine. 

Stranger, and friend, if you seek an influence 
look about you upon the opportunities and responsi- 



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bilities of the worshippers on yonder corner. May 
they appreciate both the opportunities and responsi- 
bilities, and as much as in them lies help to hasten the 
approach of that day when 'the knowledge of the Lord 
shall cover the earth as the waters do the sea. ' 

In the spirit of appreciation of these great 
benefactions and their far-reaching influences many 
of the present, and some of the former residents, have 
joined their voluntary contributions for the erection 
of this monument. The funds have been contributed 
absolutely without personal solicitation; they came 
from individuals, organizations, associations, from 
club, church, lodge, society and school, and represent a 
widespread appreciation of the gifts we all enjoy. 

The committee has finished its work; acting on 
behalf of this committee, and through it on behalf of all 
the contributors, I ask you, Mr. Chairman, and gentle- 
men of the Board of Selectmen, as representing the 
inhabitants, to accept this monument, as a sacred trust, 
to remain under your charge and in the care of your 
successors in office forever, as a perpetual memorial 
from a grateful people to Henry Huttleston Rogers. 



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Acceptance of Monument by the Town. 

MR. CHARLES R MAXFIELD, 
Chairman Board of Selectmen. 

Mr. Chairman and members of the memorial 
committee, you have had erected on Huttleston avenue 
a memorial to the memory of Fairhaven's truest friend 
and greatest benefactor. It stands as a silent re- 
minder to future generations as a mark of our grati- 
tude and esteem to one who has done so much for his 
native town. He has left us an example of unselfish 
devotion in the making and beautifying of his boyhood 
home, which we have the privilenge of appreciating and 
enjoying. 

In accepting this tribute of appreciation we trust 
the future citizens of our town will manifest the same 
interest and zeal in protecting it as the present citizens 
have in erecting it. 

And now, gentlemen of the comniitte, in behalf 
of the citizens of the town of Fairhaven, we the Board 
of Selectmen, accept this memorial erected to the 
memory of Henry Huttleston Rogers. 



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